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Manawatu Herald, 4 June 1892, Page 2

Additions to Messrs Stevens & Gorton s stsck sales are advertised to-day. On the 15th June Messrs Stevens & Gorton will hold a clearing sale in the estate of the late Mr F. Bich at Campbelltown. The Manawatu County Council give notice of the rates they intend to strike. The programme for Tuesday's ooncert appears elsewhere. Mr Montague offered the Old Fox ton Family Hotel building by auction on 'I'huvsday afternoon, to be removed within sixty days. Mr T. P. Williams purchased it for £42 10s. The usual monthly meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday. It is understood that the opponents of the Sydenham Licensing Committee have arranged to appeal to the Privy Council against the recent decision of the Court of Appeal. Mr T. Chalmers, salesman to the Dunedin Land Board, has been appointed Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington. Some of the actions of the members of the Goverinent are getting too much even for their best friends. The Mercury says, and says truly : —The Hon. W. P. Reeves is fond of indulging in the sarcastic and the mysterious. As he is generaly accredited with being the Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, the following paragraph telegraphed to that paper from Wellington is rather pregnant:— " Some revelations are to hand in an important department of the publio service. They will oause a good deal of comment." Possibly the reoent and the coming revelations respecting G. N. Bagot and the Hon. J. B Whyte were the sensations hinted at. The question comes: Is it not time that Cabinet Ministers were prohibited from acting as newspaper correspondents ? We have, says the Mercury, Mr Stevens' authority for saying that if he is returned at the present bye-election, he will, if required by his friends, not contest the seat against Mr .'< rkwright at the next general election. Mv Stevens and Mr Arkwright had an understanding not to oppose each other for the Rangitikei seat. J. Miller, a farmer of Horokiwi, was fined 10s and costs 24a for selling ninetoen native pigeons without a license. The Hon. Mr Ward, in the course of a recent after- dinner speeoh at Invercargill, said that the present Ministry was the most weighty Ministry that had ever been in power. The Premier weighed over 16st, Mr McKenzie 17st lOlbs, Mr .^-eddon over 17st, Mr Carroll over 14st, a total of 78st, or an average of 15st 31bs for each man. He would throw in the lightweights. Mr Baird, who is widely known as "Mr Abington," has, says the World, given Lord Gerard £80,000 for the Moulton Paddocks estate, near Newmarket. This property was purchased from Mr Fryer only a few years ago by Lord Gerard, who has sinoe expended a fortune in building a very fine and a most comfortable new house, in improving the gardens and grounds, and in laying down extensive grass paddocks, and it has been made quite an ideal place for the breeding of thoroughbreds. A rumour reaches Truth from the Riviera that there is a prospect of marriage between Princess Yiotoria of Wales and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Nassau Luxemburg, who is one of the best matches in Europe, as he will inherit enormous estates in Germany and Austria from his father, as well as the very large fortune. The Hereditary Grand Duke, who was born in 1852, is a cousin to the Duchess of Albany and a nephew of the Queen of Sweden, and his only sister is married to the Crown Prince of Baden. " Time is money," and our readers oan save both by availing themselves of the special parcel system, inaugurated by Te Arc House Wellington. We are asked to refer them to the announcements on this page and in another column.